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The Community Development Area of Expertise team seeks to build better communities by assisting citizens, local governments and community groups in identifying and addressing community issues. Team members help communities understand the economic, social, political and environmental impacts of community actions, with the primary focus on promoting active, informed and representative citizen participation in community decision-making.

The Community Development Area of Expertise Team is an interdisciplinary, problem solving, customer-focused group of MSU Extension staff members and MSU Extension educators, drawn together by sharing interests and skills.
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MSU Extension for the 21st century will move Michigan forward

MSU Extension has conducted a vigorous internal discussion focused on resculpting itself into a 21st-century organization, while continuing its dedication to furthering the quality of life and prosperity of Michigan citizens. The program now will carry that conversation to its external stakeholders, starting with partners in state government.

“The Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and Michigan State University Cooperative Extension have historically provided relevant, responsive services that were tailored to our rural communities," said Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm. "As Michigan moves from rust to green, these programs will be focused on enhancing our local communities’ efforts to collaborate and innovate in the new clean energy economy. I support continued funding for this restructuring, with its emphasis on growing Michigan's new green economy.”  Read the entire announcement on the MSU News site.
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Community Development Area of Expertise team membership will provide connections to a network of state and national extension and university members, resources materials and professional development opportunities. The benefits of membership:

·         Meet and communicate regularly with other professionals that work directly within communities.

·         Ability to build competency and process skills for assisting communities to address their own individualized needs.

·         Connect to community development research through Michigan State University resources: specialists and projects.

·         Develop team projects to build professional expertise.

·         Gain personal competencies through professional development opportunities with financial support from the AOE.

 

The Community Development AOE has two membership categories:

           

Full Member

-          Actively participate in the quarterly face-to-face team meetings.

-          Participate in the scheduled conference calls or portal meetings.

-          Share community development expertise as needed by the team.

-          Actively serve on team ad hoc and standing committees.

-          Identify one community development initiative annually in the Education Information System (EIS).

-          Identify professional development opportunities in your geographical area and share with total membership.

-          Support and attend professional development trainings annually.

-          Because we value leadership and active participation, financial support will be given for professional development trainings. A follow-up report will be shared with members by posting on the web site or an oral presentation.

-         On March 30th, each year the Team Membership form will be completed and sent electronically to the off-campus co-chair elect.

 

Informational member

- A member of the team list serve, able to attend meetings and participate in conference calls and portal meetings. No financial support is given to members of this membership category.

 

You may apply for Community Development membership by contacting Michelle Walk at walkmich@msu.edu 

 
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http://www.huduser.org/   Research and data on housing in the U.S.

http://www.census.gov/  U.S. Census Bureau

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html  U.S. Census State & County Quick Facts

http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/  USDA Rural Development

http://www.ezec.gov/  USDA Rural Community Empowerment Program

http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en  U.S. Census Fact Finder

http://www.bls.gov/bls/regnhome.htm  Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.fedstats.gov/  Federal Statistics Database by location or topic

http://www.preservationnation.org/  National Trust for Historic Preservation

http://www.policy.rutgers.edu/cupr/sonc/sonc.htm  The State of the Nation's Cities (Rutgers)

http://www.michigan.gov/mshda  Michigan State Housing Development Authority

http://pprc.umsl.edu/   Public Policy Research Center (Univ. of Missouri)

 
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